1 Kings 12:11
Although my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Although my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.'"
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1 Kings 12:10
The young men who had grown up with him replied, "This is how you should answer these people who said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.' This is what you should tell them: 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!

1 Kings 12:12
After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, "Come back to me on the third day."

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I will add

Exodus 1:13, 14
They worked the Israelites ruthlessly . . .

Exodus 5:5-9, 18
Pharaoh also said, "Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor." . . .

1 Samuel 8:18
When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day."

2 Chronicles 16:10
Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison because he was so enraged over this matter. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.

Isaiah 58:6
Is not the fast I have chosen to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and tear off every yoke?

Jeremiah 27:11
But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD."

Jeremiah 28:13, 14
"Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: 'You have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashioned a yoke of iron.' . . .

scorpions

1 Kings 12:14
and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, "Although my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Although my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions!"

Ezekiel 2:6
But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house.

Revelation 9:3-10
And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth. . . .

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